in reply to Re^5: HTML Table to MYSQL DB
in thread HTML Table to MYSQL DB

Hey Monks, i'm so close i can taste it... I have decided to cut the HTML tables up into chunks so that i can work with them easier on each loop. The problem now is that i'm getting the same variables every time the program goes to the next chunk of data... See my code below.. i'll appreciate it if you can tell me where exactly i went wrong :( Thanks. 
use warnings;
#use strict;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use LWP::Simple;
my @a = 0;
my $item = 0;
 
$/="\n\n";
open (FILE, "/path/to/file/file.htm") || print "Error";
@a = <FILE>;
close (FILE);

foreach (@a)
 {
    foreach $item (split "(/</TR>/)gi", $_,)
        {
            my $chunk = "$item";
            #print "$chunk","\n","***********";
    
    my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new();
$te->parse($chunk)
->first_table_found;;


foreach my $ts ($te->tables) {
my @rows = $te->rows;
foreach my $row ($te->rows)
{print join(',', @$row), "\n";}

 }
 
 
 }}

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Output 
Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title
 Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title
 Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title
 Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title
 Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title
 Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title
 Channel , Call Letters ,  Count , Percent  , Title

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(loops throughout)....

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Re^7: HTML Table to MYSQL DB
by runrig (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2011 at 19:27 UTC
    HTML::TableExtract is great if all you need is data in tables, but not so good when you also need data outside the tables. Then you're stuck with HTML::Parser. Sometimes I wish HTML::TableExtract had a place to plugin an additional callback to populate from data outside the table.
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Re^7: HTML Table to MYSQL DB
by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 10, 2011 at 10:31 UTC
    You are overcomplicating it. Why all the opening and chunking? 
    
use warnings;
use strict;

use HTML::TableExtract;

my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new();
$te->parse_file('935413.html');


foreach my $ts ($te->tables) {
    foreach my $row ($te->rows) {
        print join(',', @$row),"\n";
    }
}

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      I know chroba but, You see i need to create a time-stamp column with some data outside of the html tables. so with each chunk of data, that variable will change depending on the stamp... ( see original table to get an idea of what i'm saying). Chunks are the only thing i can think about to get that info.
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        I do not get it. The information is stored outside TABLE, but you chunk the data on TR.
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